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Originally Posted by Ekaros
Relative speeds haven't been too much thought... Or I haven't red anything yet...
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Try Neal Asher's 'Polity' series, in which much interstellar travel revolves around 'runcibles' which are massive teleportation stations. They are massive because they need to not only fling travellers in and out of hyperspace, but also to inject/absorb the kinetic energy of the travellers. E.g. someone coming 'in' from further out in the galactic arm will have a huge vector from the relative motion of their solar system, in addition to whatever vector they picked up from the orbit of the planet they left. Runcibles that have to handle a lot of 'inbound' traffic are put on frozen worlds so they can be thawed out and terraformed with the energy dumped from the runcible buffers. Runcible mishaps result in travellers being directly converted to several megatons worth of pure energy.
Also, you can establish runcible links backward or forward in time, but this is not recommended since they start to drain the 'real' universe of energy, and release it all again when the link is severed.